Writing That Makes Sense, 2nd Edition: Critical Thinking in College Composition - Softcover

Hogsette, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532650086 ISBN 13: 9781532650086

Verlag: Resource Publications, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The second edition of Writing That Makes Sense takes students through the fundamentals of the writing process and explores the basic steps of critical thinking. Drawing upon over twenty years of experience teaching college composition and professional writing, David S. Hogsette combines relevant writing pedagogy and practical assignments with the basics of critical thinking to provide students with step-by-step guides for successful academic writing in a variety of rhetorical modes. New in the second edition:
•Expanded discussion of how to write effective thesis statements for informative, persuasive, evaluative, and synthesis essays, including helpful thesis statement templates.
•Extensive templates introducing students to conventions of academic discourse, including integrating outside sources, interacting with other writers’ ideas, and dialoguing with multiple perspectives.
•Examples of academic writing from different disciplines illustrating essay titles, abstracts, thesis statements, introductions, conclusions, and voice.
•Expanded discussion of voice in academic writing, including an exploration of active and passive voice constructions in different disciplines and tips on how to edit for clarity.
•A new chapter on writing in the disciplines.
•Updated sample student papers.
•New readings with examples of opposing views and multiple perspectives.

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David S. Hogsette is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where he directs the Writing Program, teaches various writing and literature courses (including Romanticism, Gothic literature, fantasy literature, and science fiction), and serves as faculty advisor for the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and Men's Ministry. He is the author of Writing That Makes Sense: Critical Thinking in College Composition (2009).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1532650086
• ISBN 13: 9781532650086
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 626
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